scholarly journals International Community Based Projects And Engineering Education: The Advisor's Viewpoint

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Swan ◽  
David Gute ◽  
Douglas Matson ◽  
John Durant
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
International Community ◽  
Community Based

scholarly journals Merging Engineering Education with Service-Learning: How Community Based Projects Encourage Socially Conscious Engineers

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-22
Author(s):  
Aaron Brown ◽  
Michael Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Attrition Rate ◽  
Creative Problem Solving ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Creative Problem

Engineers provide essential services to society, solving pressing challenges through technological inventiveness. Students new to engineering often cite the lure of creative problem solving as attracting them to the discipline. However, traditional engineering curricula typically focus on a narrow application of fundamentals for solving closed-ended problems. Too often, engineering programs do not encourage inventive expression in problem solving. Not surprisingly, the attrition rate for engineering programs is unusually high. Recently, engineering education has shifted its focus to new, more engaging practices that incorporate hands-on methods, boosting prospects for students to engage in creative problem solving. Because service learning provides opportunities for applied work, incorporating it into engineering education programs in can engage students positively and lower attrition rates. Moreover, since engineers are fundamentally involved with social improvement, then engaging students in activities that expand their understanding of the potential impact their skills may impart to a community is not only prudent but best practices. This paper explores two case studies of community-based service learning engineering projects, highlighting community partnerships, analyses and decision-making that helped drive designs and outcomes. It explores how both the communities and students benefitted, focusing notably on the influence these activities had on student understanding of their work, academic and/or professional direction and social consciousness. These are analyzed via longitudinal reporting of students incorporating lessons learned several years post-project. The service learning projects took place in marginalized communities in Denver and Costa Rica. In the Denver project, engineering students designed, built and installed low cost solar heaters into an area with poor housing stock. In Costa Rica, students built a solar water heater for a local school. Keywords: applied learning, engineering education, experiential learning, service-learning.

scholarly journals Mortality and cardiovascular and respiratory morbidity in individuals with impaired FEV1 (PURE): an international, community-based cohort study

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. e613-e623 ◽  
Author(s):  
MyLinh Duong ◽  
Shofiqul Islam ◽  
Sumathy Rangarajan ◽  
Darryl Leong ◽  
Om Kurmi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
International Community ◽  
Respiratory Morbidity ◽  
Community Based

scholarly journals A Mixed-Methods Study of Cognitive and Affective Learning During a Sophomore Design Problem-based Service Learning Experience

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Pierrakos ◽  
Robert Nagel ◽  
Eric Pappas ◽  
Jacquelyn Nagel ◽  
Thomas Moran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Real World ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Affective Learning ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Professional Engineer ◽  
Real World Problem ◽  
Structured Problems

Authentic, real-world problem solving is an integral part of the engineering profession. Yet, research suggests that engineering education is primarily focused on well-defined and well-structured problems, which do not provide students the real-world relevance, context, or experience in solving the types of problems required as a professional engineer. The addition of problem-based service learning (PBSL) to engineering curricula provides an opportunity to introduce students to a variety of real-world projects in a community-based context. Numerous studies have shown the importance and impacts of integrating service learning and problem-based learning into engineering education. Herein, the results of a mixed-methods, longitudinal study on cognitive and affective learning during a PBSL sophomore design experience are presented and discussed. The goals are to demonstrate how both qualitative and quantitative data can be used to measure student learning during a PBSL experience and to provide a framework for assessment of such experiences.

Global differences in lung function by region (PURE): an international, community-based prospective study

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 599-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
MyLinh Duong ◽  
Shofiqul Islam ◽  
Sumathy Rangarajan ◽  
Koon Teo ◽  
Paul M O'Byrne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lung Function ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
International Community ◽  
Community Based

scholarly journals Methods & Proposal for Metadata Guiding Principles for Scholarly Communications

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Kaiser ◽  
Jennifer Kemp ◽  
Laura Paglione ◽  
Howard Ratner ◽  
David Schott ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
International Community ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
Guiding Principles

This article describes an international community-based effort to create metadata guiding principles for adopting and using richer metadata and advancing its application in scholarly communications. These principles can facilitate the dissemination, discoverability and use/reuse of many types of research and scholarly outputs. While much work remains to be done, these principles serve as a starting point for the evolution of processes that span communities including publishers, researchers, scholars, authors and other creators, librarians, curators, custodians, and consumers of scholarly works. These aspirational Metadata 2020 Principles are designed to encompass the needs of our entire community while ensuring thoughtful, purposeful, and reusable metadata resources. They provide a framework for all of us to be good metadata citizens. They also provide a foundation for considering related work from Metadata 2020 and must be interpreted within the legal and practical context in which we operate. They are intended to guide the broadest possible cross-section of our community in improving research communications, publishing, and discoverability.

Community engineering education: The case of post-conflict Rwanda

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-224
Author(s):  
Gilbert Karareba ◽  
Caroline Baillie
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Conflict Situation ◽  
Engineering Systems ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Development Context ◽  
Education Model ◽  
Alternative Practices

We argue for the need for and provide an example of a new form of community-based engineering education in Rwanda. We draw on Bourdieu’s theories of field and habitus to frame the arguments for an alternative to the current dominant engineering education model. The proposed community engineering education programme has three key facets including the development of critical thinking of students using critical theory, the students’ creation of alternative practices as a result of such critical thinking, and the appropriate pedagogy for delivering the programme. This model programme is aimed to address Rwanda’s endemic problems of economic development, poverty, environment, healthcare and energy. Specifically, it can allow students to develop very much needed, socially and environmentally just engineering systems as well as locally appropriate businesses, thus directly addressing the needs of the country and its people. The programme could apply to any post-conflict situation or indeed any development context.

Engendering Hope: Women’s (Dis)engagement in Change in Afghanistan

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
Oleksandra Sehin ◽  
Joellen Coryell ◽  
Trae Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
International Community ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Hope Theory ◽  
Sociocultural Influences ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
The Government ◽  
Women's Human Rights

Afghan women’s human rights are a crucial concern for the international community and the government in Afghanistan. Framed by hope theory, this study captured Afghan women’s understandings of recent realities, particularly those focused on expanding women’s roles in Afghan life and community. Based on focus groups with 107 women conducted in 10 different locations, findings reveal that many Afghan females are conditioned into self-perceptions that may undermine their capacity to believe they are worthy of human rights, education, and freedom from oppression. A discussion on agency, pathways, sociocultural influences, and education for hope in Afghan women’s future is presented.

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